The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

The broker told me it was pvc pipe and needless to say, It is not pvc at all It is some type of plastic material for windows. Not to mention they didnt say nothing about a tarp and it was like pulling teeth to get paid for tarp pay .

Well it wouldve been an easy tarp job but the way they load it all the pallets was different lengths and the middle part of my trailer had no freight except at bottom , right where my tarps overlapped. So it was a pita to figure out how to get it all covered without looking like a dunce going down the road with flapping tarps.



I took this picture while loading . they ended up putting 4 racks high and 3 wide . no tarping station . talk about sketchy. Had to pad the top of those racks with some carpet squares as well. Ended up being 5 hours give or take from showing up and getting checked in to getting paperwork and hit the road

 

Man bagged prodcut is the worse lol u can crank on them things all day and they will never get tight

 

Thank god it’s not me was like WtF am I doing wrong lol at least I know I’m not the only one

 

You made that look good with the tarp
I would have been scratching my head awhile

 

Thank u , i did the best i could and believe me it was plenty of headscratching and lots of cuss words flying as well. Lol

 

Yeah I love me some bungee cord saves my but keeps the tarp nice if you can get bungee and cord!!!!

 

Do u use shock cord ? I been thinking about getting some and using it on the front and back of tarps to sew the ends up nicely and bungees down the side like normal. Sometimes its hard to get the ends tight with bungees

 

God yes!!!!! It makes it so much easier!!!

 

I prefer both bungee to get the ends and then shock cord in the middle add a few more bungee where it look like might billow and voila got your self a beautiful quick tarped load!

 

Yeah im gonna have to try it out . I saw a driver had the shock cord tied onto his tarps already . Rolled his tarps out and just pulled the cord down to the hooks on the rub rail. Talk about fast , he must have been done with a full load of lumber in about 20 minutes